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Oil Industry ‘Net-Zero’ Pledges are an Attempt to Delay Climate Action, New Paper Warns
2021-04-15 by in DeSmogFossil fuel companies “cannot be relied upon to decarbonize at the speed and scale needed” to tackle rising global emissions.
Tagged under: Net Zero
UN Human Rights Experts Condemn Expanding Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley as 'Environmental Racism'
2021-03-03 by in DeSmogHuman rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement on March 2 raising concerns about the further industrialization of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” This largely Black-populated stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is lined with more than a hundred refineries and petrochemical plants. The experts said additional petrochemical development in this region, which U.S. Environmental […]
Tagged under: Rivers | Louisiana
From Pollution to the Pandemic, Racial Equity Eludes Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Community
2021-02-25 by in DeSmogMary Hampton, president of the Concerned Citizens of St. John the Baptist Parish, a community group in Louisiana fighting for clean air, opted to do everything in her power to avoid getting the coronavirus after Robert Taylor, the group’s founder, was hospitalized with COVID-19 earlier this year. So she got vaccinated as soon as she […]
Tagged under: Louisiana
Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought
2021-01-15 by in DeSmogThe American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 – much earlier than previously thought – according to newly discovered archival documents. API “was promulgating false and misleading information about climate change in 1980, nearly a decade earlier than previously known,” […]
Tagged under: Climate Change
Decoding the Hype Behind the Natural Gas Industry’s Hydrogen Push
2021-01-14 by in DeSmogIt seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. What’s known as “green hydrogen” — which relies on renewable power for production — is getting the bulk of that attention. In December, ABC News ran an article with the headline “Why green hydrogen […]
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Hydrogen | Climate Change
Top Law Firms Called Out for Serving Fossil Fuel Industry Clients in New Climate 'Scorecard'
2020-10-01 by in DeSmogWith lawsuits against major fossil fuel producers over climate damages on the rise, a new report and initiative examines how prestigious law firms are enabling climate breakdown. The student-led initiative, Law Students for Climate Accountability, calls for holding the legal industry accountable for profiting from work defending and lobbying for fossil fuel clients as the world […]
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels
Canadian Court Slams Trump Climate Advisor in Successful Libel Case
2020-05-27 by in DeSmogClimate science denier and Trump transition team advisor Dr. Tim Ball, who a Canadian court earlier derided as incompetent, ill-intended, and apparently indifferent to the truth, has been further rebuffed in the British Columbia Court of Appeal and must now stand libel for a 9-year-old attack against prominent Canadian climate scientist (and outgoing BC Green Party leader) Dr. […]
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Patrick Moore
2020-01-20 (or before) by in DeSmogPatrick Moore Credentials Honorary Doctorate of Science, North Carolina State University (2005). [1] Ph.D., Forestry*, University of British Columbia (1974). [1], [97] Honors B.Sc. in Forest Biology, University of British Columbia. [1] *Note: Patrick Moore has listed himself with a “Ph.D. in Ecology, Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia” in his profile at EcoSense and at the Heartland Institute, […]
Koch Industries Ramps Up Lobbying Against Clean Car Policies
2019-11-12 by in DeSmogKoch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States, has significantly increased its lobbying spending this year, including efforts to influence policy on key climate and transportation issues and legislation. Mandatory disclosure forms reveal that lobbying by Koch Industries is up by almost 20 percent compared to this time last year. According to the forms, […]
Tagged under: Legislation
Right Wing Attacks on Greta Thunberg: How Low Can They Go? Canada's Extremist Network 'The Rebel' Tries for the Prize
2019-10-19 by in DeSmogThe Koch-funded right wing echo chamber seems obsessed with competing to insult and vilify Greta Thunberg in the most vile and disgusting ways imaginable. The sixteen-year-old climate activist has faced a coordinated barrage of bullying and harassment that started long before she set sail for America. “Freak yachting accidents do happen…” was a particularly disturbing […]
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism
Polly Higgins — The Lawyer Taking on Big Oil’s ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
2019-04-16 by in DeSmogPolly Higgins is a woman on the hunt. And you get the sense that, after decades of working towards holding powerful polluters to account, her prey may finally be in sight. “When you’re looking at any crime, you’re looking at who are your suspects,” she tells me in a soft Scottish accent that belies the hard […]
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